Read article 'Large beams take LHC physics forward'
Usually, the motto of the LHC operations team is “maximum luminosity”. For a few days per year, however, this motto is put aside to run the machine at very low luminosity. The aim is to pr...
Read article 'CLIC steps up to the TeV challenge'
Résumé Le CLIC s’attaque au défi des TeV Le collisionneur linéaire compact (CLIC) est un collisionneur linéaire à haute luminosité de plusieurs TeV, en dé...
Read article 'LHC hits 2016 luminosity target'
At the end of August, two months ahead of schedule, the integrated luminosity delivered by the LHC reached the 2016 target value of 25 fb–1 in both the ATLAS and CMS experiments. The milest...
Read article 'Energetic protons boost BNL isotope production'
Accelerator upgrades will help to meet the demand for strontium-82.
Read article 'New bunch-production scheme breaks luminosity record'
The LHC relies on the injector complex to deliver proton beams with well-defined transverse and longitudinal characteristics, which fold directly into luminosity performance. On 16 July, LHC Oper...
Read article 'Chinese accelerator passes milestone'
Physicists in China have passed an important milestone towards an accelerator-driven sub-critical (ADS) system, a novel accelerator design for advanced energy and other technologies. On 2 July, teams...
Read article 'MAX IV paves the way for ultimate X-ray microscope'
Novel machine lattice produces brightest ever X-ray beams.
Read article 'Record-breaking production at the LHC'
The past few weeks have been a record-breaking period for the LHC, with the machine now delivering long fills with unprecedented luminosity. Following the interruption in late May due to problems with...
Read article 'AWAKE sees first beam'
CERN’s pioneering AWAKE facility, which aims to drastically reduce the scale of particle accelerators, received its first beam on 16 June. The milestone signals the next stage of commissioning f...
Read article 'BEPCII reaches its design luminosity'
A new luminosity record at the charm-tau energy region was recently broken again by the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII). The new record, 1 × 1033 cm–2s–1 at 1.89 GeV beam energy...
